Silverlight 2 introduded at Mix08
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MS today at the Mix08 announced the availability of Silverlight 2 which is currently in beta 1. Silverlight 2 has a lot of new features that were also been showcased by associated MS partners at the Las Vegas event. It follows after the success of Silverlight 1 which currently gets downloaded 1.5 million times a day. MS also say that Silverlight code is also available as Open Source, which means that developers can customize it, add some features and even redistribute it freely or commercially (more clarification to follow).
In a demonstration by AOL on their new revamped mail service (that will be online soon), Silverlight was used to change the look and feel of the interface of mail app in a single click at the same time giving improved performance. An example used was changing skins and layout into a Halo 3 theme.
Another standout feature is DeepZoom, which is an amazing powerful image zooming tool that provides well detailed zoom
without the loss of quality.A combined digital images were used to make a single image which then can be added to a gallery of images ( check out Hard-Rock Cafe and Aston Martin’s new sites later). It is now seamlessly easy for developers and designers to work in the Silverlight environment than before.
So for all .NET developers who want to try it you can head to Silverlight site and download it.
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